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title: 'VP of Engineering at Buzz Solutions'
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# VP of Engineering at Buzz Solutions

- **Company:** Buzz Solutions
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzsolutions/jobs/5199024008

## Job description

## About Us

Buzz Solutions is a fast-growing startup focused on applying AI and computer vision to solve real-world challenges in the energy and utility space. Our platform helps utilities improve reliability, safety, and operational efficiency through advanced machine learning and scalable software systems.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced VP of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering organization across AI, infrastructure, and platform systems. This is a high-impact leadership role that blends deep technical ownership including architecture, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure with strong people leadership across a multi-team organization. This individual will also close strategically and collaboratively with Product, Solutions, and executive leadership. In this role, you will directly manage team leads across three core pillars: Computer Vision and AI, MLOps and systems infrastructure, and platform engineering.

## Responsibilities

- Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for our product PowerAI
- Lead design and scaling of distributed systems and backend services, AI/ML pipelines and computer vision systems
- Establish best practices across all engineering teams and projects
- Lead & mentor team leads and senior engineers
- Build a high performing engineering culture
- Provide coaching, feedback and career development
- Partner with other departments to define roadmaps and priorities
- Ensure high-quality, on-time solutions to our customers
- Work closely with leadership in discussions revolving around strategy an company direction

## Qualifications & Experience

- 12+ years in software engineering (SaaS, infrastructure, and AI systems)
- 6+ years leading engineering teams in a hands-ons capacity
- Background in AI-driven SaaS platforms
- Experience scaling engineering at high-growth startups
- Proven experience managing multi-team orgs
- AI / ML systems experience is a must, preferably within computer vision projects
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, backend architecture, MLOps pipelines, and Full Stack Systems

Plus if you have:

- Experience energy or industrial systems
- Experience with drone, imagery, or geospatial systems
- Buzz Solutions does not provide Visa sponsorship for work authorizations in the United States at this time *

## About Buzz Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Buzz Solutions provides an AI-powered platform that analyzes aerial imagery from drones, helicopters, and ground crews to detect faults and anomalies on transmission, distribution, substation, and solar infrastructure, helping utilities prevent outages and wildfires.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; total funding $9.5M across 5 rounds, most recent $5M in February 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Kaitlyn Albertoli (CEO & Co-Founder) and Vikhyat Chaudhry (COO & CTO, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Utilities / Energy infrastructure inspection
- **Target customers**: B2B – electric utilities (transmission, distribution, substation operators, solar farm owners), large power companies
- **Mission statement**: “To safeguard the world’s energy infrastructure” – proactively identifying and fixing hazards before they cause wildfires, forced shutdowns, or power outages.

## Products & Services
- **PowerAI (Platform)**: A SaaS platform that ingests visual data (helicopter, drone, lineman-captured images) and applies computer vision to detect component defects, vegetation risks, and anomalies. Modules cover Distribution, Transmission, Substations, and Solar. Capabilities include thermal + RGB analysis, GIS mapping, and integration with Esri, Maximo, and Skydio.
- **PowerAI Video Analytics (Substation Security)**: AI-based live monitoring of existing CCTV feeds for intrusion, person-down, smoke/fire, insulator defects, and thermal alerts – runs 24/7 with no new cameras needed.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $3.8M (LinkedIn estimate); Total funding $9.5M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include GoPoint Ventures (led $5M round), Blackhorn Ventures. Partners include Esri (Silver Partner), Skydio, Maximo.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 40 employees (+22% YoY headcount growth)
  - Customers: Dominion Energy (47,000 structures analyzed), New York Power Authority, AEP Texas (88,000 images cleared in one season), Ameren (scaling solar from 510 MW to 2,500 MW by 2030)
  - PowerAI 2.0 launched in January 2025
  - 85%+ detection accuracy in field, processing speed of 0.6 seconds per image vs. 1–2 minutes manually

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific AI**: Trained on utility infrastructure data, mimicking veteran lineworker expertise – reads insulator types, paint conditions, hardware anomalies.
- **Speed & Scale**: Processes tens of thousands of images in hours, reducing analysis time by up to 70%.
- **Proven ROI**: Case studies show 6 months saved on wildfire mitigation programs, 4.9× faster site inspections, >75% time savings per site.
- **Integration ecosystem**: Works natively with Esri GIS, Maximo asset management, and Skydio drone fleet.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate adoption of AI-based inspections across more utilities (transmission, distribution, substations, solar).
- Expand substation security monitoring with live video analytics.
- Scale solar inspection capabilities in line with utility renewable targets.
- Continue building out partner network (Esri, ARCOS) and product integrations.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work that directly prevents wildfires, outages, and grid failures – tangible environmental and safety impact.
- **Remote-first**: All open roles are remote (US-based, with some roles open to remote globally).
- **Engineering culture**: Building end-to-end ML products and pipelines; roles include Computer Vision & ML Engineer, Applied ML Platform Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer, QA Engineer.
- **Startup growth**: Venture-funded with proven traction; headcount growing 22% YoY; 11 active job postings as of mid-2025.
- **Team**: Talented, passionate, hardworking engineers and product managers; collaborative environment with opportunities to own significant pieces of the platform.

## Sources
1. [buzzsolutions.co](https://www.buzzsolutions.co/) – Product overview, customer case studies, performance metrics
2. [buzzsolutions.co/about](https://www.buzzsolutions.co/about/) – Mission, founding story, team
3. [buzzsolutions.co/careers](https://www.buzzsolutions.co/careers/) – Open roles, culture description
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzsolutions](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzsolutions) – Current job listings (11 roles)
5. [linkedin.com/company/buzzsolutionsinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/buzzsolutionsinc.) – Employee count, revenue, funding, headcount growth, locations

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